The English Patient

出版者:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

作者:Michael Ondaatje

页数:324

出版时间:2004-8-2

价格:USD 14.45

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780747572596

具体描述

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire? a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.

作者简介

Philip Michael Ondaatje, CC FRSL (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally successful novel The English Patient (1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for The English Patient. In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (around 1970-90), and his editorial credits on Canadian literary projects like the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.

目录信息

I The Villa
II In Near Ruins
III Sometime a Fire
IV South Cairo 1930-1938
V Katharine
VI A Buried Plane
VII In Situ
VIII The Holy Forest
IX The Cave of Swimmers
X August
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读后感

认识《英国病人》，首先是明格拉的电影。看拉尔夫·费恩斯紧锁的眉头里还含着沙，克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯故意为之的冷漠。读起原著，我愿意再次投进那个茫茫不可知的圣洁沙漠。 故事发生在二战末期，战地护士汉娜负责照顾一个全身烧焦面目不分、有着英国口音的病人。这名...  

（发表于《书城》2013年1月号） 温峰宁/文 在小说《英国病人》中，小偷卡拉瓦乔感慨道：“我根本没想到会在这个修道院的废墟里遇到拉迪斯劳斯•德•艾尔麦西伯爵。”——正是在修道院中，护士汉娜，扫雷兵基普还有卡拉瓦乔围绕在英国病人艾尔麦西身边，伴随着他的故事，书...  

用户评价

姚媛老师说他是个很Shy的人。。她所联系的第一个不理会Email的人。。。the first photo not well taken and asked for another shot and he said " the last one" Wow...

Love never die but we die for love

My constant reading, my constant bleeding.

因为电影的关系一直以为书应该有900多页的厚度, 但是比我想象中的简短精炼很多. 电影中爱情是主旋律, 在书中却其实只算是副线. 喜欢关于nationalism, imperialism的主题. 写法也有些意识流.

真的非常非常打动人，电影弱化了Caravaggio和Kip，不过原著中我更喜欢Caravaggio，感觉他像一根故事的引线，每个人物性格都很鲜明，我喜欢艾玛殊最后在沙漠里面对爱人死亡时的那段描述。